BLACK NOBODINESS
It's indeed a strange but illustrative paradox that in the midst of Black celebrity and entertainment culture that's spawned billionaires like Oprah Winfrey and millionaires Jay Z, Beyonce' et al. that Black people are still "nobody" in America. Black poverty, especially child poverty, is now a crippling epidemic side by side with the growth and distracting social escapism contrived, created, packaged and targeted to a demographic addicted to "the stars" or another edition of some "idol" or the other. But this momentary high, a glazed over impossible daydream for many comes to a screeching halt the very next day when the rent is due and Black poverty's ugly, snarling face lights up.
It was Dr. Martin Luther King who called this phenomenon "a sense of nobodiness." A sense of standing anonymously before the bar of history. Of having come from nowhere into a life bound for nothing. Such an indictment is oftentimes derided and criticized by today's "well-to-do Blacks," especially those that mainstream, white American society embraces for their sporting abilities, Hollywood screen success, and business acumen. That's until they become too "uppity" and are mercilessly beaten down by the same society that hitherto acted and behaved towards them as if America had suddenly become color blind.
Nobodiness sometimes comes as a surprise to the Black community raised on the virtues of white people and the promoted inherent inferiority of Blacks as "sinful, cursed by God, 3/5th of a man, beastlike, and lacking intelligence." In short, Black people are nobody. Indeed, the most liberal of whites that hypocritically tout the "goodness of all God's people" ends abruptly and lasts only until you hear them start praising these "Black examples" and wolf-smiling whites for "transcending" race.
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